ESPIONAGE: A Spy in the Treasury

The case of the late Harry Dexter White
boiled up in the nation's headlines, touching off the sharpest
political controversy since the 1952 elections. Attorney General
Herbert Brownell, in a Chicago speech last week, revived the charges
that White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and an important
policymaker of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, was a spy for
Russia. Brownell added a new and serious accusation: President Truman
had promoted White after the White House had received two written FBI
reports saying that White was a spy.